a. Obs. [f. COMBUSTION: see -OUS.]

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  1.  In combustion, burning.

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1622.  J. Taylor (Water P.), To Honour of O’Toole, Wks. (1630), II. 17/2. The burning mouth of the combustious cannon.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., IX. 386. Combustious Ætna.

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1829.  W. Irving, Conq. Granada, lxxxi. (1850), 434. All kinds of combustious explosions.

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  2.  Combustible.

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1592.  Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 1162. As drie combustious matter is to fire.

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  3.  Raging, tumultuous, turbulent, stormy.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. xiv. § 6. Mutuall combustious [so edd. 1597, 1632; ed. 1622 reads combustions] bloudsheads and wastes.

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1600–12.  Rowlands, Four Knaves (Percy Soc.), 105. Chimnies tops orethrown In … this fierce combustious weather.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., II. 77. Dangerous and combustious seas.

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1658.  Cleveland, Rustic Ramp., Wks. (1687), 395. Upon the Confusion of the combustious Flaming in such Variety of Places.

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